Lancaster county, about 1526. About that time, John Fiske tells us, Lucas Vasquez d'Ayllon came from Hispaniola, and "tried the Chesapeake Bay" in search of the northwest passage, and "ob- tained a grant and began to build a town."' But that town was likely south of the Pennsylvania line. Then next, about

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to collect of this humble building, destined to be the theatre of a series of wonderful and momentous events and proceedings. Its Cost and First Events. It surely was an humble one, be- cause the law of May 12, 1729, allowed the Commissioners to raise only £300 of Pennsylvania money by taxation to

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leading figure in Lancaster county politics. Wright was becoming old, and Ed- wards seems to have lost popularity, while he became a favorite, however, with the Governor and the proprie- tary's side of the Government. Recommissioned Justice of Peace. In 1741 he was recommissioned Jus- tice of the Peace

" and Bryn Mawr. (Bryn Mawr is on the Pennsylvania railroad, and one of the stations.) He says, also, at page 368, that what we are accustomed to call Montgomery avenue or Lancaster Road, extending from High street (now Market street) to Lancaster, was formerly known as the old Con- estoga Road, but was

their houses with axes, wounded �and carried them away prisoners, and drove the women and children forth in the month of January into the woods. Early in 1737, therefore, the Coun- cil of Pennsylvania sent orders to the Sheriff of Lancaster county to raise a sufficient number of men of the county at

constituting Lancaster county from the Indians to the whites, is to be the subject of this paper. The Earliest Purchase by Swedes. The earliest "white man's" title to Lancaster county, of which we have any knowledge or record, is that nar- rated to us by Campanius and Acrel- ius, the early Swedish historians

March, 1861, in Washington, I was walking down Pennsylvania Avenue with several others, when I met Mr. Dickey and several friends from Lancaster. Mr. Dickey asked us whether we would go and shake hands with Lin- coln. They all backed out but me; so Dickey took me to the White House to see the President